I put out a call on the social medias the other day for your favorite works of magical realism in translation and received some great recommendations. Here they are, in one handy post:

 

 

• “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
• “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka, translated by David Wyllie
• Works by Isabel Allende
• The Man With the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-Yi, translated by Darryl Sterk
• The Obscene Bird of Night by Jose Donoso, translated by Hardie St. Martin and Leonard Mades
• Works by Jorge Luis Borges
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O’Connor
• Works by Murakami
• Works by Julio Cortázar
• The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
• Works by Laura Esquivel
• Listening For Jupiter by Pierre-Luc Landry, translated by Arielle Aaronson and Madeleine Stratford